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Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment


From: Jim Burwell <jimb () jsbc cc>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:12:29 -0800

On 1/6/2010 01:23, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:

  
The closest I can come to a solution is to set a random password and flash it using a front-panel LED using morse.  
<grin>
    
heh

No password at all, operator prompted at the console during startup unless/until he sets one.  No IP address, et. al. 
until a password is set.
  
Yeah.  And for devices with no console, only network interfaces, a
default IP address, no default password, and no default route (just in
case they plug it into a real LAN instead of a laptop.  :p  ).


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